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The Research Seminars in Economics series organised by Economics at King's take place (roughly) every second week on Wednesdays, 14.00-15.15. 

The seminars are jointly organised by the Department of Economics at King's Business School, economists at the Department of Political Economy and the Department of International Development.

For questions about this seminar series, please contact one of the seminar organisers: Bouke Klein Teeselink, Teresa Esteban-Casanelles, Liang Bai, Margaret Davenport, or Margaryta Klymak.

Please see the archives for previous research seminars.

Other seminar series organised by Economists at King's include: the King's Business School Research Seminars in Economics, Research Seminars in Banking & Finance, Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance Virtual Seminar Series, the Economics Brownbag seminar series and Quantitative Political Economy brown-bag seminar series

Semester 1

  • 9 October, Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv University) — News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)
  • 23 October, Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics) - Incomplete Contracts in Commodities Trade: Evidence from LNG
  • 30 October, Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh) – Gendered work: Onset and consequences
  • 13 November, Alex Gershkov (University of Surrey/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - — Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors
  • 27 November, Banu Demir (Oxford) – “TBC”

Semester 2

  • 19 February, 2025, Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin) – “TBC”
  • 26 February, Botond Kőszegi (Bonn) - How Secondary Markets Undermine Social Responsibility
  • 12 March, Julia Cagé (Sciences Po) – “TBC”
  • 26 March, Doug Gollin (Tufts University) – “TBC”
  • 9 April, Sandro Ambuehl (University of Zurich) – Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Aid
  • 23 April, Lucie Gadenne: When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending
  • 7 May, Yan Chen (University of Michigan) — Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
  • 21 May, Paula Onuchic (London School of Economics) — How do Groups Speak and How are They Understood?